<p>So I am this close to 'Sir'ing to Berkeley for Economics, but hearing everyday about the difficulty of the program and the intense curves is somewhat troubling. </p>
<p>I'm sure those of you entering a hard science of some sort are even more worried!</p>
<p>Is there hope?!?</p>
<p>econ is not hard. don’t worry.</p>
<p>They admitted you for your major with the notion that you will attend. They would not have admitted you if they thought you would be a failure. Think about it</p>
<p>Yea from what I’ve heard Econ is a joke compared to Haas. Just study more than everyone else and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>actually, haas is known as the easy major since the avg gpa in the classes go up once you get in.</p>
<p>i know some econ majors at berk, and they all seem to be surviving</p>
<p>but to call it “a joke” …s.t.f.u with that</p>
<p>Hey bagels, sorry I hurt your feelings?</p>
<p>@Jetforcegeminix
Really, I would love to see the statistics for that.</p>
<p>Please,</p>
<p>Econ a joke compared to Haas? Ha Ha Ha.</p>
<p>go on courserank.com and look at the grade distributions for the core haas classes, they are all curve to B+/A- so that the haas majors can keep high gpas. For example UGBA 103 has an average grade of B+. The equivalent class in the econ department is econ 136 which has an average grade of B. Or look at UGBA 102A which has an average grade of A- with 61% A’s. The general consensus is that the haas gpas are high so that the grads land great jobs and build up the reputation of the program.</p>
<p><a href=“https://berkeley.courserank.com/berkeley/course?id=41521[/url]”>https://berkeley.courserank.com/berkeley/course?id=41521</a></p>
<p>@thebigshow
I wouldn’t expect a Cal econ major to say any differently, but I’m really not trying to insult you guys.</p>
<p>@JetForcegeminix
That page seems to require a username and password to log into, but I believe you.</p>
<p>sorry just realized you need a valid berkeley email address to use it for berkeley grades. however, you can look up all the official grades for ucla classes with your ucla email,</p>
<p>I tried to, but it says “berkeley.edu emails only”. It looked really useful too : [</p>
<p>Philosophy is harder than both of them :/. lol Haas…Sometimes I wish I had just buckled down and dealt with the insane amount of business prereqs. Oh well.</p>
<p>school is only as hard as you make it manage your time and learn to work hard play hard and you will be fine</p>
<p>It won’t be hard. We’ve made it which means we have what it takes to make it at those schools. </p>
<p>Personally, I feel as if my life experience, maturity, knowledge and work ethic will make me a top student at whatever school you go to. If you feel the same and act upon that belief you’ll blow everyone else out of the water and if you don’t, don’t believe in your accomplishments and talents and are intimidated by the pressure or the other students then you’ll crumble and you apparently weren’t meant to be there. </p>
<p>Don’t be the latter. </p>
<p>It’s really just a matter of choice. But if you’re asking if we have the skill level, the intelligence, the drive and the gifts to excel at those schools? Absolutely, and then some.</p>
<p>how inspiring, thelongshot!</p>
<p>It depends on one’s intelligence. I have spoken to transfers before that say they don’t understand anything when they read their textbooks. Others breeze through it and outperform their non transfer peers.</p>
<p>I don’t think UCLA is too hard of a school. I heard from a friend that UC Berkeley is a lot more intense. I would be a lot more worried if someone was going to Cal Tech; now that seems intense.</p>
<p>I think it’s just a matter of putting in the time to study. If you get distracted by all the crap at Berk that wasn’t at your JC, then your grades are gonna suffer. If you study long enough, it then simply comes down to are you a smart student or not. Obviously you are smart cause you got in.</p>
<p>@emilsinclair9</p>
<p>You could be right in that Philosophy might be harder than Haas, but Haas has a much lower transfer acceptance rate of 6.8% (according to last year’s stats: <a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/12626_5.Info_TransAdm.pdf[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/12626_5.Info_TransAdm.pdf</a>), so getting in as a transfer would be a bigger hurdle to leap first.</p>
<p>I wanted to apply for Haas as well and thought I’d have a good chance, but 6.8% was too big of a gamble for me. Hell, I didn’t even get accepted to UCLA Comm, even though it has an acceptance rate slightly higher than Haas (said ~10% on UCLA transfer pamphlet?). Good thing I didn’t apply for Haas and get a double bust.</p>